Innovation, Governance and Entrepreneurship: How Do They Evolve in Middle Income Countries?

This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail. How to best practise innovation and entrepreneurship, which many researchers and policy makers

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Edited by Sefer Sener and Stefan Schepers

Innovation, Governance and Entrepreneurship: How Do They Evolve in Middle Income Countries?

Sefer Sener · Stefan Schepers Editors

Innovation, Governance and Entrepreneurship: How Do They Evolve in Middle Income Countries? New Concepts, Trends and Challenges

Editors Sefer Sener Istanbul University Istanbul, Turkey

Stefan Schepers Henley Business School Brussels, Belgium

ISBN 978-3-319-55925-4 ISBN 978-3-319-55926-1  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55926-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017937482 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Supapixx/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

For my mother, Sehri Sener, without whose care and support I would not be who I am Sefer Sener For my mother, Germaine Lijnen, who introduced me to the cultural richness of Istanbul and Turkey Stefan Schepers

Contents

Introduction  1 Sefer Sener and Stefan Schepers Innovation Ecosystem Development: A Necessary Instrument to Escape the Mid-Income Trap  11 Stefan Schepers Is Innovation Conducive to Economic Growth? The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries  35 Sefer Sener and Cigdem Borke Tunali The Dynamic Function of Innovative Entrepreneurship in Evolutionary Economics for Middle-Income Countries  53 Sefer Sener and Volkan Hacioglu Collaborative Governance: Working Through Misaligned Interests  79 Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse

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Entrepreneurship and Ethics: Examples of Social Entrepreneurship in Turkey and Selected Middle-Income Countries  95 Selva Staub and Zeliha Tekin An Em